How far did the alleged PSOE sewer operation against the judge who prosecuted the president's brother go? The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz investigates this matter, one of the many that make up the baptized 'Leire Díez case', and already has different evidence that he must corroborate and connect with each other.
A handwritten note, Leire Díez's contact with a judge expelled from the race and the testimony of the leader of a drug trafficking clan from Badajoz. These are the three threads that instructor Pedraz must weave together to prove whether it is true that the alleged sewers even sought to intimidate and physically attack the judge who investigated David Sánchez, although this never happened.
The instructor Beatriz Biedma herself spoke on the matter this Thursday at the National Court. He spoke about the contacts of former judge Luis José Sáenz de Tejada with the 'Los Rochos' clan. He explained that several lawyers from Badajoz confirmed that the former magistrate had spoken with the leader of the 'narcoclan', Cintia Rocho, to consider attacking Biedma. Documents and testimonies in the case confirm that Leire Díez and his partner Javier Pérez Dolset contacted the disqualified judge to orchestrate a plan against Biedma.
Now it remains to be proven with other evidence whether the former magistrate really planned to attack—even "get out of the way"—the Badajoz judge and, if applicable, whether he did so at the direction or with the knowledge of Leire Díez. It is even more difficult to prove that this entire operation was led by Santos Cerdán, whom the judge places at the top and at the origin of the alleged sewers.
'Judge of Badajoz. La Celsa. Heroine and gypsy
The first clue about the operation against Biedma went unnoticed by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and Judge Santiago Pedraz, hidden among the pages of one of Leire Díez's agendas, seized by the UCO at the end of last year. "Judge of Badajoz. La Celsa. Heroine and gypsy," reads a handwritten note on the page corresponding to March 13 in the 2025 agenda.
The annotation made sense when the leader of 'Los Rocho', Cintia Rocho, appeared on television to explain that "la Celsa" is her and that a judge and a lawyer contacted her and ended up proposing to attack Judge Beatriz Biedma. Weeks ago the UCO went to Badajoz to question 'la Celsa' as a witness and collected this information. At this point, the investigators had already advanced in their investigations.
In the previous months, the investigation confirmed through other means that, indeed, Leire Díez and her partner Dolset launched an operation to try to overthrow the case against Pedro Sánchez's brother. Among all possible avenues, they chose to turn to a somewhat dark and conspiratorial character, widely known in the circles of lawyers, prosecutors and judges in the city of Badajoz.
This is Luis José Sáenz de Tejada, a former judge expelled from the race after being convicted of gender violence, converted into a YouTuber and dedicated to attacking the Badajoz judicial leadership from his networks. With special interest in Judge Beatriz Biedma, and this was precisely what caught the attention of Leire Díez and Pérez Dolset in order to activate their plan to overthrow the David Sánchez case.
Former judge Tejada, the way to attack Biedma
Did Sáenz de Tejada always act by order of the supposed sewers of the PSOE or did he sometimes do so as a free verse, guided by the previous animosity against Judge Biedma? Several factors prove that Leire Díez and Dolset contacted him through a businessman accused of fraud in hydrocarbons, Joaquín Parra, as part of their initiative against the Badajoz judge. In August 2024, the former magistrate, Parra and the two members of the sewers formed the WhatsApp group 'Vacation and travel', and through this channel they organized a meeting with the aim of Sáenz de Tejada providing information or strategies to affect Biedma's reputation.
One of the first ideas was for the former magistrate to assume the defense of David Sánchez in order to, in this way, recuse (remove from the case) Biedma. That was discussed during a meeting held in a building on Diego de León Street (Madrid), a "PSOE safe house," according to Leire Díez and Dolset. Another of the initiatives that emerged from the meeting was the presentation of complaints against Biedma and other judges from Badajoz before the State Attorney General's Office.
Tejada filed a first complaint on October 21, 2024, "apparently reviewed by Leire Díez and Santos Cerdán," according to the UCO. The State Attorney General's Office declared that it was not competent to initiate the matter. However, in November, Tejada sent "a burofax to the state attorney general telling him about the case and reiterating the complaint," according to what he said on the WhatsApp group. The Prosecutor's Office responded after two days, and this time decided to forward the complaint to the Superior Prosecutor's Office of Extremadura for "study and implementation, where appropriate, of the appropriate proceedings."
Sáenz de Tejada carried out these operations under the tutelage of the socialist sewers, according to the evidence collected by the UCO. Regarding his contacts with the leader of Los Rochos, the indications are scarcer. Cintia Rocho has provided the UCO with screenshots that prove that she spoke with Sáenz de Tejada. But none of them talk about assaulting or attacking Biedma. That proposal was made in a phone call, according to the leader of the drug trafficking clan. The main clue that connects these actions with the sewers is Leire Díez's note about "la Celsa."
